| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Redoedo (41)
10/24/2005 | Far too much air time was dedicated to this incident, which is a testament to the misplaced priorities of our media.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (156)
10/06/2005 | Wow. The media sensationalized the disappearance of another dumb kid who should not have gone vacationing under the influence of stupidity like snotty little rich kids so often do. It only served to highlight the dangerous lifestyle some parents are foolish enough to let their children live. "Daddy, can I go vacation under questionable supervision in a place where they let anyone who can see over the bar drink and a bunch of horny guys want to do me?" "Sure, pumpkin!" UPDATE: My mom wouldn't have let me go to Aruba at 18 and was actually pissed that I joined the Marines at 20. Still, I had gained enough wisdom by then to not go and get into a bunch of trouble like all my dumb Jarhead friends who did things like getting really drunk and kicking the Duty NCO, finding out that what you thought was a woman was not, or getting a little bonus burning sensation when you pee.
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 | abichara (63)
10/06/2005 | The media blew this story way out of proportion. True, this was a very tragic story for the family who lost this girl during a school getaway to Aruba. I think this happened primarily because Natalee allowed herself to be put in a compromising position. She went off with a bunch of strange guys she had just met at a bar at 2AM in the morning! That there was very little in the way of adult supervision on the trip raises even more questions here. I'm certain that Aruba didn't like this publicity. Sadly this is something that happens more commonly than you think. Natalee's case probably got more attention because she looked like the girl next door, many people could relate with the emotions that these parents were going through. But that it in itself does not mean that it should have gotten such intense coverage considering what was going on in the world. It was just one individual after all.
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 | scarletfeather (53)
10/05/2005 | Would this have gotten so much publicity if Natalee had been plump and acne-ravaged?
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 | GenghisTheHun (177)
10/03/2005 | This sad event was a media Titanic that sank beneath the waves when some actually important events came along. The sensationalism of this event was disgusting, and how long are we going to tolerate the degradation of our society by such obsession on a family's tragedy?
The media should have hounded her parents about the stupidity of allowing a teenager, just into her majority, from going to a Third World country with basically no supervision. (See numbah_16_td_haha's comment and edt4's comment.)
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 | edt4 (110)
10/03/2005 | Just another glaring example of the corporate media's fixation on non-issues in their continuing attempt to divert our attention from the complex problems that really do affect our lives. Sure, it's a terrible tragedy, but how many hundreds of thousands of kids disappear without a trace during the year and never get more than an inch of newsprint on page 8 or 12, if that? Why did this particular girl rate such coverage? Then Katrina came along, and even the corporate media couldn't ingore that...although, rest assured, Greta Van Susteren is still down there in Aruba hunting down clues...
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 | zuchinibut (41)
10/03/2005 | This is a tragic event, but it is one that doesn't effect very many people in this country. However, certain members of the media have tried their hardest to make this an important event for people in the name of better ratings. It is disturbing sometimes to witness how our media decides to use their airtime.
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
07/07/2005 | Another example of the media's obsession of the white damsel-in-distress syndrome. It is a sad state of affairs, but enough already.
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
07/07/2005 | The disappearance story isn't national news, except for parents of college-age children, living this empathetic nightmare with her mother. The keystone cops-type cover-up might be a story, if someone is able to ascertain the truth. There ought to be some fantastic deals next spring on Spring Break in Aruba!
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